Today's Events Highlight Midwestern Show and Prorodeo
The Midwestern Herb and Garden Show runs 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Times Square Mall Mount Vernon with exhibits seminars equipment books seeds and plants and hourly classes free. Prorodeo Classic at Four-Star Arena Creal Springs opens 6:30 p.m. tickets 12 8 15 11. Friends of Traditional Music and Dance host contra dance 8 to 11 p.m. Murphysboro Senior Center with live fiddle music walk-throughs four dollar admission.
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Times Square Mall
Mount Vernon
Illinois
Creal Springs
Friends of
Murphysboro Senior Center
N. 14Th St
Wyat's COMING Live cougar program and events
At Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge visitors center Illinois 148 two miles south of Illinois 13 a free event runs at 10 a.m. Saturday. A Valentine dinner dance at Knights of Columbus Herrin begins at 7 p.m. Saturday with a $25 single $40 couple price, includes dinner dessert and DJ. Proceeds benefit the Doughboy Relocation Fund. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus and Elks Lodge 1146. John A. Logan College library Carterville hosts Pruett discussing the video A History of Herrin, Illinois. Contact numbers provided.
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Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Illinois
Knights of Columbus
Herrin
Doughboy Relocation Fund
Knights of Columbus and Elks Lodge
John A. Logan College
Carterville
Pruett
Carbondale man arrested in large marijuana bust
Jackson County deputies confiscated more than 230 marijuana plants and 50 pounds of packaged cannabis at a Cedar Lane trailer park after a domestic disturbance call. The operation included grow lights and CO generators, with over $1,300 in cash found. Joseph L. Cerutti, 34, faces multiple cannabis charges and a firearm FOID violation.
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Carbondale
Jackson County
William Kilquist Kilquist
Cedar Lane
Kilquist
Pat
Joseph L. Cerutti
Peach's Passion pageant aids VHS Family Alliance
Herrin resident Kim Peach battles von Hippel-Lindau disease and organizes a Valentine pageant for children at Illinois Centre mall. All profits benefit VHL Family Alliance as Peach promotes awareness and support for families facing the rare illness.
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Kim Peach
Illinois Centre Mall
VHS Family Alliance
Herrin
Peach
VHL Family Alliance
VHL
Danny Dunn
Man resentenced to 90 years for Du Quoin boy death
Curtis W. Brunkhorst, 32, originally sentenced to life without parole for murdering his live-in girlfriend's 8-year-old son Caleb Jones, was resentenced in Perry County Circuit Court to 90 years for first degree murder and a five-year term for concealing a homicidal death. The 1997 conviction stood after an appeal. the 1995 law imposing life without parole for child murder was ruled unconstitutional.
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Pinckneyville
Perry County
Curtis W. Brunkhorst
Brunkhorst
Caleb Jones
du Quoin
Fifth District Circuit Court
Two ask judge to dismiss murder charges in Murphysboro
Attorneys for two former graduate students seek dismissal of murder counts in the Murphysboro case. Jahneria Singletary and Taffia Cunningham face murder home invasion and armed robbery charges tied to a botched break-in at Prentice Washington's apartment. Washington, 20, shot Tyree Cunningham, 22, in self defense during the incident.
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Murphysboro
Jahneria Singletary
Taffia Cunningham
Prentice Washington
Washington
Taffin
Tyree Cunningham
Singletary
Taffin Cunningham
Karen Smith
Donald Druid
Multicultural Festival offers world crafts at Carbondale event
At Carbondale’s Civic Center a multicultural festival showcased more than 20 booths with crafts from Hawaii to Mexico. Kids like Teal Shackleton and Kelsee Spradlin explored hula lessons, God’s Eye weaving, and Henna designs while sponsors note the event grows from school projects to a community-wide teaching tool.
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Teal Shackleton
Kelsee Spradlin
de Soto
Patti Wittham
Hawaii
Carbondale
Peru
Mexico
France
China
Patricia Grimmer
History Club
Carbondale High School
Grimmer
Gavin Flynn
Toneka Green
Parrish
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Shryock
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Illinois Shakespeare Festival Company
Rend Lake College Theatre, Inc
Buffalo
the Stage Company
Washington St
SIUC
I.D
University Mall
Bill Nye
Blood Drive
West Teleservices
Wyat
Gordon Pruett
Linda A. Krutsinger
John D. Homan
Wendy Upchurch
Krystal Dunn
Marsha Coffel
Oroes
Tasha Towle
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